He says that for rural education, emotional isolation is often a bigger problem than lack of access to technology.
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Rural schools
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "we connect rural students with urban teachers then rural teachers then the learning outcomes of these rural kids will increase greatly but that's not..."
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Jiang says the way to turn a low-performing rural school around is not more technology but more community, including parent outreach, teacher development, and meaningful student-teacher conversation.
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"we connect rural students with urban teachers then rural teachers then the learning outcomes of these rural kids will increase greatly but that's not..."
"...examples of this okay so um i've done some research in rural schools and i've been you know focused a lot on rural school..."
"talk about lesson planning and then i'm in this class and they get a report of their success they ask questions and students and..."
"...China has spent billions of dollars in providing rapid access to rural schools you know rural schools they lack good teachers I mean and..."
"...be accurate? Because if you factored in 100,000 poorly funded Chinese rural schools, would you get the same sort of overall score?"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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